J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Woman Stooping 1807

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Woman Stooping 1807
D06551
Turner Bequest C 31a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘C 31a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The woman appears to be gleaning, or perhaps bending to pick up vegetables in which case she may have been sketched in the market-place which Turner drew on folios 33 and 34 of the sketchbook (D06552, D06553; Turner Bequest C 32, 33).

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Woman Stooping 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-woman-stooping-r1139079, accessed 28 March 2024.